Improvement in bale-ties



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, BALE-TIE. N0.171,30Z. Patented Dec; 21, 11875.

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- I ATTORNEYS P OTWLITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C r V- W W UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

RICHARDSON MONTFORT, OF BUTLER, GEORGIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,302, dated December21, 1875, application filed November 27, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RICHARDSON MONT- FORT, aresident and citizen of town of Blitler, in the county of Taylor andState of Georgia, have invented a new and valuable Iinprovement inBuckles for Wire Bale-Ties; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the construction andoperation of the same, refereuoe being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a plan view of mybale-tie, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof.

This invention hasrelation to improvements in buckles for Wirebale-ties; audit consists in the novel construction and arrangement of ametallic plate, having a lozenge-shaped slot and down-turned notchedends, whereby a means is provided for uniting the two ends of awire-binder of greater efiiciency and reliability, as will behereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a rectangular metallicplate of suitable thickness, having a lozenge-shaped slot, a, cuttherein, the longer diagonal of which is coincident with the long axisof the said plate. The ends of said plate are bent down, as shown at b,Fig. 2, and are provided with a notch, 0, formed on the lower edge ofthe said .bent portion, as shown in Fig. 1, for a purpose "which willhereinafter appear. These notches are in line with the acute angles ofslot a.

The application and operation of my improved buckle, in connection witha wire binder, B, are as follows: The substance to be baled having beenreduced to the desired size bypressure, the wire binder'is passed aroundit. One end of the said binder is then passed from below through slotat, is bent back and under bent lip 11, and inserted into notch 0 formedtherein. The other end of the binder 'is likewise passed from belowthrough the said slot, and having been drawn taut so as to take up theslack, is first bent over and backward, and thenpassed under the otherlip b into its notch c. A sufficient number of the said binders havingbeen thus applied to the baled mass the pressure is taken off, when thenatural expansion of the bale will tighten all the ties, crowd the wireinto the acute angular end t'of slot a, and force those portions of thesaid wire up against the upper end of notches c, at the same timeconfining them in the said notches. The upper end of the notches 0 willserve as biting-edges, which, g-ripinguponthe wires, will, with theaddithe wire contained in the acute angular ends 2' of slot at, preventthe said binder from breaking loose from the buckle under any strains towhich the bale would, in the ordinary course of transportation orhandling, be subjected to. As shown, the ends of the binder are insertedinto notches c, and will be confined therein; consequently the drawingout of the said ends by aohanoe application of a hook, whereby the holdof lip 11 thereon would be destroyed, and the tie loosened, isefi'ectually prevented.

Whatl claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The bale-tie buckle A, having lozengeshaped slot a, anddownwardly-bent lips b, having slot 0, substantially as specified.

2. In combination with wire binder B the buckle-plate A, having slot to,downwardlybent ends I), and slots 0, substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have of two witnesses.

RICHARDSON MONTFORT.

} Witnesses:

J. H. HOLSEY,

W. H. JENKINS.

tipn of the hold taken upon that portion of hereunto subscribed my namein the presence

